Matthew 20:3

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

So you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

It was the third hour, and they crucified him.

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.